52 Germany. 
no pay connected with this additional duty and the 
districts were too large, the execution of this supervision 
was but indifferently performed. 
In 1749 a special city forest order placed the city 
forests in Prussia under the provincial governments, 
requiring for their management the employment of a 
forester and the inspection of his work by the provincial 
forestmaster. 
5. Personnel. 
Although all this supervision was probably more or 
less lax, the possibility of more general and incisive in- 
fluence was increasing because the personnel to whom 
such supervision could be intrusted was at last coming 
into existence. 
The men in whose hands lay at the beginning of the 
18th century the task of developing and executing forest 
policies and of developing forestry practice came from 
two very different classes. The work in the woods fell 
naturally to the share of the huntsmen and forest guards, 
who by their practical life in the woods had secured some 
wood lore and developed some technical detail upon the 
basis of empiric. These so-called holzgerechte Jaeger 
(Woodcrafty hunters) prepared for their duties by plac- 
ing themselves under the direction of an established 
huntsman, who taught them what he knew about the 
rules of the chase, while by questioning woodchoppers, 
colliers, etc., and by their own observation the knowledge 
of woodcraft was acquired. 
At the head of affairs stood the so-called cameralists 
or chamber officials, men who had prepared themselves 
by the study of philosophy, law, diplomacy and political 
